Syntax highlighting

Syntax highlighting is a feature which displays text in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms. It is the feature of text editors that are used for programming (source code), scripting, markup languages (HTML, JSON, or XML), or configuration files (LFM, or Ini-files).

Example

program Project1;

const
  text = 'Press any key to continue!';
  { Computer programmers historically used 'Press any key to continue' as
    a prompt to the user when it was necessary to pause processing.
    The system would resume after the user pressed any keyboard button. }
begin
  WriteLn(text);
  ReadLn;
end.

In the Pascal example, the editor has recognized the keywords program, const, begin, and end. The comment is also highlighted in a specific manner to distinguish it from working code.

Components

Icon	Component	Description
	TSynPasSyn	Generic Pascal syntax-highlighting
	TSynFreePascalSyn	Free-Pascal syntax-highlighting
	TSynCppSyn	C++ syntax-highlighting
	TSynJavaSyn	Java syntax-highlighting
	TSynPerlSyn	perl syntax-highlighting
	TSynHTMLSyn	HTML syntax-highlighting
	TSynXMLSyn	XML syntax-highlighting
	TSynLFMSyn	LFM syntax-highlighting
	TSynDiffSyn
	TSynUNIXShellScriptSyn	Unix shell syntax-highlighting
	TSynCssSyn	CSS syntax-highlighting
	TSynPHPSyn	PHP syntax-highlighting
	TSynTeXSyn	(La)TeX syntax-highlighting
	TSynSQLSyn	SQL syntax-highlighting
	TSynPythonSyn	Python syntax-highlighting
	TSynVBSyn	Visual Basic syntax-highlighting
	TSynAnySyn
	TSynMultiSyn
	TSynBatSyn	Batch-file syntax-highlighting
	TSynIniSyn	INI-file syntax-highlighting
	TSynPoSyn

From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Syntax highlighting", as it stood on 2023-09-15 after a change by Myrmidon, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.